Facts & Statistics

Medical Center and Health System Facts

Figures are for fiscal year 2009 unless otherwise indicated.

A 2009 U.S.News & World Report ranking placed Duke University Medical Center among the top 10 of 174 qualifying medical centers, and only one of 21 to make the "Honor Roll."

For the 10th year running, Triangle residents rated Duke University Medical Center the best-quality hospital in the Durham area -- earning Duke a 2009-2010 Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation.

Annual operating revenues, Duke University Health System: $2 billion

Medical Center campus size: 99 buildings located on 210 acres

Gross square feet: 8 million

Faculty and Staff Facts

Duke is the largest employer in Durham County and the second-largest private employer in North Carolina. Duke University Health System has approximately 14,203 full-time employees, while the academic Duke University Medical Center has 10,412 full-time employees, and Duke University has 9,298 employees, for a total of 33,913.

About 15 percent of Duke University Medical Center employees have a medical or doctoral degree (or both).

Included among them are:

• 891 "house staff" physicians working as residents and fellows;
• 1,560 faculty in the clinical programs;
• 196 faculty in the basic sciences.

Education Facts

All figures are current as of October 2009 unless otherwise noted.

In 2009 U.S.News & World Report ranked the Duke University School of Medicine among the top six programs in the United States.

For the class entering September 2009, the School of Medicine received 5,166 applications for 100 slots.

U.S.News & World Report ranked Duke's physician assistant program as number two in the United States for 2007 (most recent data available).

Duke's doctor of physical therapy program was ranked 13th in the nation in a 2008 U.S.News & World Report ranking (most recent data available).

Student Facts

School of Medicine MD Program: 415

PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 522

School of Nursing: 486

• Accelerated BSN: 142
• MSN degree: 227
• Post-Master's certificate: 37
• DNP degree: 65
• PhD degree: 15

Medical and Health Professions:

• Doctor of Physical Therapy: 179
• Physician Assistant (MHS degree): 138
• Pathologist's Assistant (MHS degree): 8
• Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 1
• Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 102
• Ophthalmic Medical Technician Program: 12

Graduate Medical Education: 891 residents and fellows

Continuing Medical Education: In fiscal year 2009, the School of Medicine's Office of Continuing Medical Education sponsored 381 activities attended by approximately 36,000 physicians and 14,000 non-physicians.

Research Facts

All figures are current as of October 2009 unless otherwise noted.

Duke University Medical Center comprises one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country, with more than $600 million in sponsored research in 2009.

It is ranked among the top four American medical schools in National Institutes of Health grant funding, with more than $358 million in 2007 (most recent data available: brimr.org).

With highly respected research programs in areas ranging from cancer and heart disease to the basic sciences and health policy research, Duke is home to the nation's largest and oldest academic clinical research organization -- the Duke Clinical Research Institute -- and to the $200-million Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, a campus-wide initiative to address the broad challenges of the genomic revolution.

About 15 percent of Duke students are enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program, which leads to both a MD and a PhD in one of the basic sciences. Created to train highly qualified students as physician-scientists, the program has graduated more MD-PhDs than any such program in the country and is highly regarded nationally.

Patient Care Facts

Figures are for Duke University Health System (including Duke University Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke HomeCare & Hospice, Duke Primary Care) for fiscal year 2009 unless otherwise indicated.

Inpatient admissions: 63,223

Outpatient visits: 1,616,956

Number of surgical procedures, including endoscopy: 81,233

Figures are for Duke University Hospital, hospital-based clinics, and DUMC outpatient locations for fiscal year 2009 unless otherwise indicated.

Inpatients: 40,956

Outpatient visits: 986,441

Average adult daily census (without observation): 682

Total inpatient days (including normal newborns): 254,756

Emergency Department visits: 66,177

Patients transported by LifeFlight (excludes ground): 715

Number of surgical cases: 34,994

Hospital lab procedures: 5,295,665

Babies delivered: 3,072

Cardiac catheterizations (adult/pediatric/mobile): 5,573

Cardiac catheterizations in mobile units: 253

Angioplasties: 1,037

Open heart surgeries:

• Adult: 967
• Pediatric: 139
• Thoracic: 1,170

Organ transplants:

• Kidney: 138
• Pancreas-Kidney: 14
• Lung: 79
• Heart: 45
• Liver: 52

Charity Care and Community Care Facts

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